My wife loves the The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit novels, but the audiobooks have lots of annoying singing by Rob Inglis. We tried listening to them once upon a time, but kept having to fast forward through many minutes of horrible singing, which hurt the listening experience.

So this week I fixed it. I edited out all of the songs from the entire series, except for reinserting about half a dozen that have good renditions on Youtube from Clamavi De Profundis, and the “Chip the Glasses and Crack the Plates” from the live action The Hobbit film.

inAudible’s splitter, joiner, and audio editor tools were invaluable and made the process super easy. I only had to use Audacity for a couple of them.